A Very Special Play Club: Actor Slam!
Play: The Bear by Anton Chekhov

Please join Manor Mill for a different kind of Play Club this month and enjoy a full performance of Anton Chekhov’s one act farce The Bear presented as an”Actor Slam” by Manor Mill Our Town cast members Mike Byrne (Dr Gibbs), M. Eden Walker(Julia Gibbs) and Elizabeth Levy Malis (Mrs. Soames).

“Actor Slam” is a technique where the actors come to the performance fully blocked and memorized, but have never once performed the play together before doing it in front of a live audience. This method explores what the magic of the “first time” and the trust of their real bonds as artists can bring to a particularly risky and wild approach to live theatre. Come watch them sink and swim!

For more information contact: playclub@manor-mill.com
This event is free and open to the public. However there is limited seating so sign up now to reserve your spot!

About Play Club
Each month, we analyze and discuss one play, first as a literary piece and then as a production piece. If you love to go to the theater, enjoy reading plays, create theater on any level and/or love story-telling, come and join a lively conversation about what makes a great play.

Actors will read from pivotal scenes and prompt a group discussion about the play on the page. Then a theater artist (i.e. director, production designer, sound designer, costumer designer) will give a designer pitch for how to bring the play to the stage.

Come to the meeting, having read the play (as best you can). Meets the second Monday of every month,

Snacks will be provided and BYOB.